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  • Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity

    Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity2

    If you, like me, were a student who strove to get work in on time and took advantage of extra credit or other academic perks when offered, then you can be glad you’re past school age—especially if you live in Portland, Ore. That’s because schools in that district are beginning to implement “equitable grading practices.” Just

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  • The Meaning of the Cross Over Hungary’s Parliament

    The Meaning of the Cross Over Hungary’s Parliament5

    A 3-meter-wide Communist red star once illuminated the sky over the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest. After the Iron Curtain fell, the Hungarians removed it, and it now sits as an exhibit in the basement of the building. This year, on the Feast of St. Stephen—a celebration held every August 20 in memory of Hungary’s first

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  • Climate Brainwashing

    Climate Brainwashing1

    Hammering K-12 school children nonstop about the dangers of climate change in every class, even math, art and gym, is child abuse. Barely one-third of fourth graders can read or do math at grade level, according to the latest national scores, but climate activists are demanding kids hear about global warming in every class. New

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  • Historical Living . . . in the City?

    Historical Living . . . in the City?0

    When someone says, “traditional lifestyle,” we think of historical farms, countryside views, gardens, animals, sunrises, and sunsets. We rarely, if ever, think of apartments, city streets, and rental townhomes with historical living. Perhaps you’re a college student in a campus dorm room. Maybe your job keeps you in an urban studio apartment. Perhaps skyrocketing housing

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  • Wokeness, Not Climate Change, Is to Blame in Maui

    Wokeness, Not Climate Change, Is to Blame in Maui0

    Over 111 lives have been lost in the tragic Maui fires that wiped the historic township of Lahaina off the map and have left authorities searching for another possible 1,000 victims. Like clockwork, corporate newsrooms have concluded that a climate apocalypse is to blame. “The explanation is as straightforward as it is sobering,” the New York

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  • A Farewell to Postmodernism

    A Farewell to Postmodernism3

    It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too, e.g. about the changes of the moon and of the sun, about the stars and about the origin of the universe.  

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